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SB 1240 Virginia Virtual School Board; established, report.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Virginia Virtual School established. Establishes the Board of the Virginia Virtual School (the Board) as a policy agency in the executive branch of state government for the purpose of governing the full-time virtual school programs offered to students enrolled in the Virginia Virtual School (the School). The Secretary of Education is responsible for such agency. The 14-member Board is given operational control of the School and assigned powers and duties. Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the bill requires the School to be open to any school-age person in the Commonwealth and to provide an educational program meeting the Standards of Quality for grades kindergarten through 12, with a maximum enrollment of 5,000 students statewide. The bill requires the average state share of Standards of Quality per pupil funding for each enrolled student to be transferred to the School.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102925D pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105164D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/17 Senate: Substitute bill reprinted 17105164D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/17 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1240ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102925D
- 01/10/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/02/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105164D-S1
- 02/02/17 Senate: Substitute bill reprinted 17105164D-S1
- 02/02/17 Senate: Incorporates SB1380 (Petersen)
- 02/02/17 Senate: Incorporates SB1570 (Peake)
- 02/02/17 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (8-Y 5-N)
- 02/02/17 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/02/17 Senate: Reported from Finance (11-Y 5-N)
- 02/03/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/06/17 Senate: Read second time
- 02/06/17 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/06/17 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 17105164D-S1
- 02/06/17 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1240S1
- 02/09/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/17 House: Read first time
- 02/09/17 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/13/17 House: Reported from Education (14-Y 8-N)
- 02/13/17 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/13/17 House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
- 02/14/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
- 02/15/17 House: Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 7-N)
- 02/17/17 House: Read second time
- 02/20/17 House: Read third time
- 02/20/17 House: Passed House (59-Y 37-N)
- 02/20/17 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (59-Y 37-N)
- 02/22/17 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/22/17 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1240ER)
- 02/22/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/22/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/17 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
- 02/23/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/13/17 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/05/17 Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto (20-Y 20-N)
- 04/05/17 Senate: Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto
- 04/05/17 Senate: Reconsideration of Governor's veto agreed to (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/05/17 Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto (21-Y 19-N)
- 04/05/17 Senate: Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto